GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| spasmodic | relating to or affected or characterized by spasm |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |